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Recently finished watching Squid Game. And it actually is great.
What's funny is that I also listened to Silhouette's Seventh Wave recently (which immediately became an all-time favorite to me), and you can pretty well picture Squid Game world when listening to it, it's quite funny.

Also been watching at Conflicts tonight, the 4 first episodes (among 6). It has its qualities (typically it's mostly realistic), but also its...strange aspects... Characters are often caricatural, and for some reason (probably to avoid making the thing too spicy in the context, it was made in 2024 in Finland, showing what clearly is an invasion of Finland by Russia), the creators of the series refuse to name the enemy, and the characters keep circling around it, like the enemy is coming from Kaliningrad, in 2024, with missiles, in order to secure access to the sea, because Finland is "the door to Europe", and yet after that they keep calling them "the mysterious foreign enemy" and won't even have the idea of having a call with Moscow, it's kinda hilarious.


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American Rust

A slow-burn character drama taking place in a sleepy Rust Belt town. The top star is Jeff Daniels playing a local cop embroiled in corruption and several moving parts crimes. He does an admirable job trying to carry the weight of the show which suffers from serious lack of character development in the writing. I certainly enjoyed parts of it, but not enough to recommend or ever re-watch it. Beautiful location for the story filmed in Western Pennsylvania. 3 stars.
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All done with se02 of Squid Game - definitely another season coming as it just ended in the middle of ongoing events. Great show though.
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Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi

Companion series toTales of the Empire as it follows Count Dooku when he was still a Jedi Master but starting to be conflicted, communing with Palpatine, and concealing the clone army being created on Kamino. Recommended to Star Wars enthusiasts.

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Star Wars: Tales of the Empire

Excellent 3D animated subplot regarding the fallen but still active Empire's takeover of the distant worlds for their natural resources led by the cunning Grand Admiral Thrawn and the New Republic agents who try to thwart them.

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The first 2 episodes of season 2 of Squid Game. Brilliant, love it.
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White Lies 8 episodes
Natalie Dormer stars in this recent crime drama from South Africa. Probably the smartest written thing I've seen for a long time. Politics and racism are the backdrops against a police investigation of a double murder at a well to do family home. Dormer's character is a reporter who is also the estranged sister of one of the family members. I mostly binged this in 2 nights. It has it all for this type of suspense crime drama ( of which there are many!). 9/10
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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Watched the first episode of the new Martin Clunes drama Out There. It's set in rural Wales and looks promising. I only mention it because it featured not just one but two Pink Floyd songs (WYWH and Money). Methinks someone involved in the production may be a Floyd fan!

Just watched 3rd and 4th episodes. This has definitely not gone where I was expecting. I do wonder what actually goes on in rural Wales (aside from sheep worrying obviously) based on a few dramas that seem to think 'just about anything' it seems! I nearly fell off my chair laughing when the 3rd episode went full on 'Slasher Movie'. Crazy stuff. BTW watch out for young rising star Louis Ashbourne Serkis, his parents being noted actors Lorraine Ashbourne and Lord Of The Rings star Andy Serkis.


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SAS Rogue Heroes - Season 2
This is one of Steven Knight's pet projects post Peaky Blinders and is about the birth of the world famous 'Special Air Service' regiment during WW2. This takes it up just to before the D-Day landings and comparing to Season 1 gets a little bit away from the 'Boys Own Adventure' larger than life story telling. Here we get a lot more of the brutality and sheer raw nastiness of war. One episode in particular involving children is extremely hard hitting. An absolute must watch for anyone with an interest in WW2. 8/10
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Originally posted by Finnforest Finnforest wrote:

Originally posted by Catcher10 Catcher10 wrote:

Originally posted by Finnforest Finnforest wrote:

Sounds interesting, though I don't have Netflix. That's one funny thing about the streaming age. I'll hear about some great show, read some reviews, and then realize I don't have the right service to watch it!
For us NetFlix is a Covid hold over, the whole household was not working so we got paid to stay home and watch a krapp ton of movies and repaint all the rooms LOL


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Originally posted by Catcher10 Catcher10 wrote:

Originally posted by Finnforest Finnforest wrote:

Sounds interesting, though I don't have Netflix. That's one funny thing about the streaming age. I'll hear about some great show, read some reviews, and then realize I don't have the right service to watch it!
For us NetFlix is a Covid hold over, the whole household was not working so we got paid to stay home and watch a krapp ton of movies and repaint all the rooms LOL


Nice Clap.  Good to see you again Jose. Been a while.
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Watched the first episode of the new Martin Clunes drama Out There. It's set in rural Wales and looks promising. I only mention it because it featured not just one but two Pink Floyd songs (WYWH and Money). Methinks someone involved in the production may be a Floyd fan!
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Originally posted by Finnforest Finnforest wrote:

Sounds interesting, though I don't have Netflix. That's one funny thing about the streaming age. I'll hear about some great show, read some reviews, and then realize I don't have the right service to watch it!
For us NetFlix is a Covid hold over, the whole household was not working so we got paid to stay home and watch a krapp ton of movies and repaint all the rooms LOL
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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Originally posted by Catcher10 Catcher10 wrote:

American Primeval (Netflix)
-Watched all episodes on Sunday, I think 6. Started out kinda weird and gruesome with not only killings but animal butchering that IMO did not need to be so in your face. 
The series grew on us after the first 2 episodes and ended up being pretty good, once the storyline moved to more about the Mormon movement and Brigham Young vs US Govt.

Honestly did not know much about the origins of the Mormon movement and the Mountain Meadows massacre......

You might find Under The Banner Of Heaven (another TV mini series) interesting as it also touches on the Mountain Meadows massacre (even depicting it in one of the episodes) and goes into Mormon 'fundamentalism' views.


Thanks!! Will look into it....
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Just finished Series 2 of Silo. Still good, but not as mysterious and exciting as the first series. A strange ending to the last episode which didn't really give us very much but will surely be expanded upon in the 3rd season. 8/10
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Originally posted by Catcher10 Catcher10 wrote:

American Primeval (Netflix)
-Watched all episodes on Sunday, I think 6. Started out kinda weird and gruesome with not only killings but animal butchering that IMO did not need to be so in your face. 
The series grew on us after the first 2 episodes and ended up being pretty good, once the storyline moved to more about the Mormon movement and Brigham Young vs US Govt.

Honestly did not know much about the origins of the Mormon movement and the Mountain Meadows massacre......

You might find Under The Banner Of Heaven (another TV mini series) interesting as it also touches on the Mountain Meadows massacre (even depicting it in one of the episodes) and goes into Mormon 'fundamentalism' views.




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Sounds interesting, though I don't have Netflix. That's one funny thing about the streaming age. I'll hear about some great show, read some reviews, and then realize I don't have the right service to watch it!
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American Primeval (Netflix)
-Watched all episodes on Sunday, I think 6. Started out kinda weird and gruesome with not only killings but animal butchering that IMO did not need to be so in your face. 
The series grew on us after the first 2 episodes and ended up being pretty good, once the storyline moved to more about the Mormon movement and Brigham Young vs US Govt.

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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

As we are on the subject of sci-fi I would recommend The Orville as a show with very intelligent writing and interesting character arcs. It's been perhaps wrongly considered a 'spoof' although there is some very sly humour and obvious fun digs at Star Trek.  Pity that it has been cancelled after 3 seasons but then all the best sci-fi goes that way it seems. BUT having just now looked it up it is going to Season 4 and has been confirmed that filming to start in this month. Happy days!!


Thanks...I will look into this one.
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As we are on the subject of sci-fi I would recommend The Orville as a show with very intelligent writing and interesting character arcs. It's been perhaps wrongly considered a 'spoof' although there is some very sly humour and obvious fun digs at Star Trek.  Pity that it has been cancelled after 3 seasons but then all the best sci-fi goes that way it seems. BUT having just now looked it up it is going to Season 4 and has been confirmed that filming to start in this month. Happy days!!
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